Sort of like insisting on labeling a coat as a jacket because a store still has too many parkas come spring.

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And in what is becoming a big spring 2012 trend, there came the big peony printed cape, pant suit, jacket and romper.

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For winter and into spring, designers have harnessed the fearless fun of the party suit once more, with matching trouser-and-jacket combinations in flower prints, metallics and saturated colors.

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For his spring 2013 show in September, he sliced arm vents onto the sides of overcoats so women could mimic the popular jacket-draped-over-the-shoulders look without fear of the coat sliding off.

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